MY VIEW/OPINION MANAGER PAUL TROLLOPE CERTAINLY STAMPED HIS

MY VIEW/OPINION

MANAGER PAUL TROLLOPE CERTAINLY STAMPED HIS AUTHORITY ON THE NEW LOOK CARDIFF TEAM.

Trollope Shocked everyone and Dropped Manga,Whittingham and Harris from the starting 11.

Cardiff were to static today and there was no one there of real quality, unlike Norwich who had the quality upfront.

But to be fair to Cardiff they never stopped battling,but I believe Trollope got the starting line up wrong today.

Our goals were to little to late.

Thanks to Vince Alm for keeping me updated

Cardiff players today played in front of a big Norwich crowd,but with only a few hundred diehard Bluebird fans who had made the trip to support them.

NORWICH CITY 3 CARDIFF CITY 2
Jerome 16mins Pilkighton 86min
Martin 58 Pilkinghton 92min
Murphy 90

Ben Wilson, Peltier, Morrison, Connolly, Richards, John, Gunnarsson, Ralls, Immers, Pilkington, Lambert.

Subs : Amos, Manga, Whittingham, Harris, Huws, Noone and Gounongbe


Crowd 25,519
Away Support 300 approx incl 50 comps.


Cardiff City were today led out by new Captain Sean Morrison


Norwich last three games, the Canaries’ fortunes have been rather mixed with a win, draw and loss from their last three outings. They narrowly beat Bristol City 1-0, drew 1-1 with arch rivals Ipswich Town before suffering a comprehensive 3-0 defeat to Birmingham City last time out.

Also the Canaries had failed to score in seven of their last 11 league games, including their last time out against Birmingham,
whilst Cardiff City travelled to Norwich today upbeat having just signed their new striker Rickie Lambert


Cardiff City ran out to a big crowd,but with themselves only having a few hundred diehard fans to support them.

For the first 15mins Cardiff held their own and then in the 16th min Cameron Jerome from close range shot the ball in the back of the net,after Wilson had saved it.First time the ball has been in the city box. Norwich 1-0

Cardiff were playing good football, with Lambert holding the ball well and passing it about well, but at this stage we were not hurting Norwich.

Lambert was also running back and defending.

New captain Sean Morrison was down for quite a while and looked to be in a lot of pain after being followed,thankfully after treatment he was back on his feet.

Norwich seemed to take control of the game and had Cardiff on the back foot for long periods.

in the 39th min Cardiff came close. Gunnarsson's long throw was nodded on, and the Norwich goalie McGovern reacted superbly to deny Ricky Lambert.

Cardiff were on penned back right up and till half-time.

Half-time Norwich City 1 Cardiff City 0


Now Cardiff needed to step up the pace this half.

Cardiff started to threaten down the left with Declan John, making some good runs


In the 52 min Rickie Lambert hit the bar! he should of scored, brilliant cross from Gunnarsson. Oh, he had to score. It was the perfect chance


Cameron Jerome was still causing all sorts of problems. Somehow got a free header in the Cardiff box and bang Russell Martin made it 2-0 Norwich


63rd min Whittingham and Harris came with Lex Immers and Declan John coming off.

70min Matt Connolly was replaced by Craig Noone

Trollope was now going for pace.

City went forward but there was no one there to finish it.

We were to static and had no real quality to make a difference against Norwich City.

86th min Anthony Pilkington got one back for City 2-1, Noone made the differance

90th min Josh Murphy 3-1 Norwich

92min Pilkinghton 3-2


Full-time NORWICH CITY 3 CARDIFF CITY 2



Man of the match Anthony Pilkinghton








UP NEXT PRESTON AWAY THIS TUESDAY NIGHT

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What a mess we are in

UP NEXT LEEDS UNITED HOME THIS SATURDAY 12.30PM

Preston away this tuesday is next

UP NEXT LEEDS UNITED HOME THIS SATURDAY 12.30PM

Preston away this tuesday is next

OOPS Your right Darren

What a mess we are in

Hmmmm? I better watch what I say,the usual suspects will say I am negative

UP NEXT LEEDS UNITED HOME THIS SATURDAY 12.30PM

Preston away this tuesday is next

OOPS Your right Darren

4 points from the next 2 games must be the absolute minimum, anything less and things will be looking pretty bleak.

What a mess we are in

Hmmmm? I better watch what I say,the usual suspects will say I am negative

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I know you say Wilson made a save and Jerome put the rebound in, but the statistics say Norwich had 3 shots on goals and scored them all!

Hardly surprising when the clowns running our club choose to sell our 2 first choice keepers though. I also believe Marshall wouldn't have signed for Hull to be on the bench today. I think he was forced out and the clowns in charge are lying to us once again!

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Hmmmm? I better watch what I say,the usual suspects will say I am negative

It's a toss up who is the most clueless,either Trollope or the usual suspects leave it to you to decide

Trollope is the new tinkerman by the look of it he needs to keep a settled side a few games in obviously isn't the end of the world but as games start to go by if things don't change we are only going one way and that's down

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What a mess we are in

Hmmmm? I better watch what I say,the usual suspects will say I am negative

All you can do is observe and comment thats not being negative its being realistic

What a mess we are in

Hmmmm? I better watch what I say,the usual suspects will say I am negative

All you can do is observe and comment thats not being negative its being realistic

Allan/ Wez

Vince's words not just mine it looks like we could be in a relegation fight ? ?

What a mess we are in

Hmmmm? I better watch what I say,the usual suspects will say I am negative

All you can do is observe and comment thats not being negative its being realistic

Correct and certain people try to stop others having their honest opinions

Absolute bonkers to think we will be in a relegation scrap after just six games and just lost to a tough place in Carrow Road.

Absolute bonkers to think we will be in a relegation scrap after just six games and just lost to a tough place in Carrow Road.

Read my words correctly could be?

Absolute bonkers to think we will be in a relegation scrap after just six games and just lost to a tough place in Carrow Road.

Read my words correctly could be?

But I don't think we will.

Absolute bonkers to think we will be in a relegation scrap after just six games and just lost to a tough place in Carrow Road.

Based on your past predictions that is not very comfoting to hear.

If Norwich are promotion contenders then so are we all very poor game between two poor sides

I'm what MBA types called a 'realistic optimist' (whatever that is). I've seen us play some good 45 minutes of play this season both home and away. I've seen us create plenty of chances at times too. We've also been solid at the back and hard to score against. That's the optimistic bit. This is the realistic bit. I've also see us play some poor 45 minutes. I've seen us not closing off games by converting the chances and then coming away with nothing. I've seen our best player sold and now I fear we will be easier to score against. Today, we don't start three of our best players in a system where you simply have to have your best players starting. If we had started them, the final 3-2 scoreline and our goals coming late suggest that we could have come away with something. I thought the final piece of the jigsaw was hopefully bringing in a much needed striker but now I think we have much more to address and it needs to happen quickly or we will struggle. Too early to be looking at positions but if we continue as we have been, then we definitely have a problem.

If Norwich are promotion contenders then so are we all very poor game between two poor sides

Norwich were poor and Cardiff today

It's really sad to think we probably have the richest
owner we have ever had and that the club seems to
meander rather than push for anything!

Mixed messages from within the club and similar decisions have caused divisions within support for the club.

I said sometime ago the horse has bolted and nothing seems to have altered in raining it in.

Bring back the 80 and 90's far more enjoyable!

Give the man a chance I say ,how the hell you can say where we will finish after a few matches played is guesswork at best .It will take time to bed in his way of playing and to mould his style of play.Ive seen first hand down the vale how professional the coaching set up and training is so I believe that we will see as the season goes on real progression and better results

Give the man a chance I say ,how the hell you can say where we will finish after a few matches played is guesswork at best .It will take time to bed in his way of playing and to mould his style of play.Ive seen first hand down the vale how professional the coaching set up and training is so I believe that we will see as the season goes on real progression and better results

Yes exactly jut give it time and we will be rewarded.

Allan/ Wez

Vince's words not just mine it looks like we could be in a relegation fight ? ?

That's his and maybe your opinion but if that's case so are derby below us but maybe their fans are more of the optimistic type? And if people can say after 6 games we are in relegation fight best we all give up and go home!!

P's if in same place at Xmas then i can say in relegation fight.

Allan/ Wez

Vince's words not just mine it looks like we could be in a relegation fight ? ?

That's his and maybe your opinion but if that's case so are derby below us but maybe their fans are more of the optimistic type? And if people can say after 6 games we are in relegation fight best we all give up and go home!!

P's if in same place at Xmas then i can say in relegation fight.

why you saying Wez ? if Lambert scored his chances we would of won,keeper made great save for one and hit the bar on the other ,they had 3 shots on goal and scored them Norwich are a decent team and will be in the mix at the end of the season ,our team will gel soon then we will turn the corner our squad is very strong you just have to look at the bench today

Allan/ Wez

Vince's words not just mine it looks like we could be in a relegation fight ? ?

That's his and maybe your opinion but if that's case so are derby below us but maybe their fans are more of the optimistic type? And if people can say after 6 games we are in relegation fight best we all give up and go home!!

P's if in same place at Xmas then i can say in relegation fight.

why you saying Wez ? if Lambert scored his chances we would of won,keeper made great save for one and hit the bar on the other ,they had 3 shots on goal and scored them Norwich are a decent team and will be in the mix at the end of the season ,our team will gel soon then we will turn the corner our squad is very strong you just have to look at the bench today

Wez this is twice today he's used our names as references just because we have different opinion to him and others !!!

Allan/ Wez

Vince's words not just mine it looks like we could be in a relegation fight ? ?

That's his and maybe your opinion but if that's case so are derby below us but maybe their fans are more of the optimistic type? And if people can say after 6 games we are in relegation fight best we all give up and go home!!

P's if in same place at Xmas then i can say in relegation fight.

why you saying Wez ? if Lambert scored his chances we would of won,keeper made great save for one and hit the bar on the other ,they had 3 shots on goal and scored them Norwich are a decent team and will be in the mix at the end of the season ,our team will gel soon then we will turn the corner our squad is very strong you just have to look at the bench today

How many times have we heard if that happened, or if this had happened. Virtually every time we get beat we hear the same excuses. We have 5 points from 6 games, fact, no ifs or buts. If you think everything is going along nicely, then you have a completely different view of what most of us would consider to be satisfactory. Just 6 games gone and how many points are we already adrift from the top. If we fail to win just one of our next two games, we will almost certainly find ourselves in the bottom three and the pressure starting to build.